
John Anderson
1 FOLLOWER • 86 CREDITS • OCT 20, 1922 - AUG 7, 1992 • 69
Biography
John Robert Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) A tall, sinewy, austere-looking character actor with silver hair, rugged features and a distinctive voice, John Robert Anderson appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes. Immensely versatile, he was at his best submerging himself in the role of historical figures (he impersonated Abraham Lincoln three times and twice baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, men whom he strongly resembled). He was a familiar presence in westerns and science-fiction serials, usually as upstanding, dignified and generally benign citizens (a rare exception was his Ebonite interrogator in The Outer Limits (1963) episode "Nightmare"). He had a high opinion of Rod Serling and was proud to be featured in four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959), most memorably as the tuxedo-clad angel Gabriel in "A Passage for Trumpet" (doing for Jack Klugman what Henry Travers did for James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)).
Known For

Murder, She Wrote

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Gunsmoke

The Fugitive

Perry Mason

Bonanza

The Twilight Zone

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Matlock

Dr. Kildare

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jake and the Fatman

Lou Grant

Hawaii Five-O

The F.B.I.

Mannix

Have Gun, Will Travel

Quincy, M.E.

Emergency!

Thriller

Kung Fu

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Route 66

Dallas

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Rockford Files

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Incredible Hulk

Rawhide

Law of the Plainsman

Cannon

Petrocelli

Sam Benedict

Bat Masterson

Little House on the Prairie

Quantum Leap

Lancer

The Big Valley

Outlaws

Peter Gunn

Hunter

MacGyver

Bronk

M*A*S*H

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

The Bob Newhart Show

Lassie

Cain's Hundred

Voyagers!

My Favorite Martian

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Johnny Ringo

Cimarron Strip

The Rat Patrol

Peter Loves Mary

Laramie

$weepstake$

Tarzan

Bret Maverick

Yancy Derringer

Panic!

Occasional Wife

87th Precinct

The Lieutenant

The Tall Man

Silver Spoons

Redigo

The Quest

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

The Westerner

Annie McGuire

Trackdown

Bearcats!

Aaron's Way

Backstairs at the White House

Last Train from Gun Hill

Psycho

5 Card Stud

For the Love of Willadean

The Dove

I-Man

The Virginian

Call to Danger
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